Senior Software Engineer – Java/Kotlin – (Remote)
Senior Software Engineer – Java/Kotlin – (Remote)
Senior Software Engineer
Req ID
4240
Location(s)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boulder, Colorado, USA; Chandler, Arizona, USA; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Columbia, South Carolina, USA; Dallas, Texas, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; Portland, Oregon, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA; Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; Vancouver, Washington, USA; Veteran, Wyoming, USA; Wichita, Kansas, USA;
Work arrangement(s)
Fully Remote (works exclusively from home)
Your opportunity
At New Relic, we provide our customers real-time insights, so they can innovate faster. Our software delivers insightful observability tools across different technologies and distributed systems, enabling software engineering teams to quickly identify, understand and tackle issues, analyze performance and get the most of their software and infrastructure. We work with data at a scale found at few companies using a diverse tech stack (Go, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, many public cloud web services, and more). At New Relic, you will work with some of the best engineers and seek some of the most complex problems in the industry. If you love scale and want to contribute to one of the largest and fastest growing observability platforms in the market, we want to hear from you: We’re looking for senior software engineers to join our teams within the Product organization. We’re a fast-growing software company that cares about our product and culture.
What you’ll do
- Build, maintain, and scale back-end services and their support tools.
- Participate and sometimes lead in architectural definitions with a high degree of innovation and creativity.
- Creating automation and tooling to make our systems more scalable and easier to deploy.
- Working directly within a multidisciplinary team to help our customers and partners.
- Research new tools and services to understand complex scenarios and to also propose new features.
- Working in an agile environment with a DevOps approach-teams build and maintain their own software, including taking turns with being on-call.
This role requires
- 4+ years of hands-on professional experience with distributed systems, data streams (Kafka preferred), concurrency, and scaling in a production environment.
- Strong experience in writing software in Java and/or Kotlin, and you are not afraid of adapting, learning and working with different languages and frameworks.
- Experience in technical mentorship and support for helping level up the skills of colleagues on the team.
- Being comfortable in a fast-paced environment focused on delivering production code at a regular cadence using Agile techniques, tools and methodologies.
- Having a collaborative work style that includes colleagues in important decisions and leads to shared code ownership
Bonus points if you have
- Contribution to open source projects.
- Understanding the value that build and test automation brings to a development team’s efficiency and reliability and are passionate about applying these techniques to your projects.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming techniques: streams, event-based flows, task queues, message queues.
Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruiting process, please visit to submit your request.
We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid.
Our hiring process
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records based on individual circumstances and in accordance with applicable law including, but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.
New Relic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, free from all types of discrimination, so our Relics can thrive. We hire people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics.
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Estimated Base Pay Range: $ 146,000 – $ 182,000
The pay range above represents a reasonable estimate of the salary for the listed position. This role is eligible for a corporate bonus plan. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related factors such as an applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience.
New Relic provides a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.
Wage – midpoint
182,000
Wage – minimum
146,000
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